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Sounds absolutely fine but confirming what Gitano hinted at, you will need a 2mm spacer under the Lee FCD.
Steve

What does IIRC mean? Regards, Rick.

IIRC, If I Recall Correctly, IIRC. :D
Steve

 


 

Sorry for the wee thread hijack here, but being a bit of a BSA fan I couldn't help noticing what looked like a BSA hunter receiver ring chambered in 22LR ???? Never heard of this before. brithunter, what can you tell me about it, It looks really interesting? I had a Hunter in 22 Hornet at one point, sold it when I was broke, had a sloppy chamber anyway, but nice wee action. This looks about the same size.
Steve

Sounds like it will be a very sweet little rifle, just the job for a Fallow, bit of overkill on a Roe but would do the job all the same & a long round nose at moderate velocity such as the x54 does should not spoil much meat. I'll have to keep my eyes peels for a cows horn, still probably go with the ebony though, its only 'sposed to be "in the spirit of" after all.
Steve

Bu99er, I'm right out of buffalo horn just now:laugh: :laugh:, I'm sure you're correct, in fact I know you are,  but in a way its using what I have & knowing where it came from that is more important than being totally correct. I swapped a pair of desert boots with a joker at the Makonde carvers market just north of Dar es Salaam for some blocks of Ebony. He couldn't get his head around what I wanted them for, but I jacked it up the day before & when we stopped there the next day there he was, patience is all, just as well he had big feet( or knew someone that did). The Ebony & Ivory chess set cost me the jeans I was wearing + $US50, & I still thought it was a good deal. In truth, unless I put a better piece of wood on this rifle it would be a waste of the Ebony, I have a couple of blanks put aside but once its shooting. the urge to restock seems to diminish. One day.:smiley:
Steve

Sounds like a nice rifle.  Could you post some pics of it?

 The family are away at present & have the digi cam with them (school holidays) but I will when they get back.
Its still very mucha work in progress but the eventual  aim is to have it looking like a WR with a sling stud soldered in the barrel, maybe an ebony foreend tip etc. I've just shortened up the P-H stock thus far & really, it needs a better piece of wood on it. I'm also tempted to transfer the barrel into a Mauser action, the threads are the same as Mauser ones but quite a lot longer due to the difference in the bolt so it wouldn't be too big a hassle.
Steve

I have a Midland , originally in 30-06, but it had a ringed barrel when I first bought it, I sent the barrel to Australia to be rebored to 338 cal & it is now in 338-06.
The stock has been reshaped to emulate the old Westley Richards stocks after a fashion & it shoots quite well. I've refined the bolt handle a bit & tidied up the casting marks on the receiver & in general it not inelegant. The Midland receiver is an investment caste hybrid to use a Springfield bolt in a receiver that fits into a Mauser 98 style stock. Midlands should drop into pretty much any after market stock for say a Mk X but they will need modifying around the rear guard screw for the Parker Hale type trigger. I'm not ware of any other trigger that fits them & it is different form a Mauser one. All in all I reckon they're a very underrated rifle & capable of good service. The Parker Hale barrels are normally very accurate.
Steve

Fair point BH, but I was referring to the sort of slugs now generally available, both the "rifled" kind commonly used in factory loads & the round nosed type with hollow base & variation, some to be used in shot cups, some not, mainly used by home casting fans. I don't claim to have used any of these but a consensus I have built up from many hours googling such things leads me to that conclusion. Of course there are exceptions & until one tries it in ones own gun then whose to know. The paradox makers were, of course, dealing with projectiles carefully sized for their barrels. I tend to think that regulations permitting, it might be possible to emulate this & I am keen to try but to expect paradox accuracy straight up is possibly unrealistic.
Steve

For what its worth, there seems to be little difference between a rifled choke & an Improved Cylinder choke for slugs. It would seem to take a fully rifled shotgun barrel (in which case its a 12gauge rifle to my way of thinking ) to give a serious increase in slug accuracy. Having said this, I'm keen to get a short barreled pump shotty & experiment with slugs & buckshot in it, & therefore I want one with interchangeable chokes.
Steve

Shame on you kombi :frown why would you, heck why anyone would, want to mess with one of those Short fat and ugly things is beyond me .

Wot he said. Sorry.:o
Steve

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• Lastly, and this is important........I'm weird; this has cropped up before and plays a significant part in my decision making process.

You've no idea what a comfort it is when I discover I'm not alone. :)
I've always had a hankering for the odd & esoteric rounds when I just know there are plenty that do the job just as well & are much more "mainstream", they're just so boring.
Steve

If you're only going to shoot 140gr bullets, you might as well go for a .270, if you want to shoot heavier, the 7x64 or .280 Rem is the way to go, 160 gr is a logical "sweet" weight for it but its well capable of shooting 175 grainers, think you might need a 1:9 twist for this. I have a liteweight 7x64 built on a VZ33 action, barrel is a bit slim really & it starts to wander around after a couple of shots a bit, not the fault of the round, I think I need to full length bed it p'haps. It digests 160 gr bullets happily in front of IMR4831, a powder of this speed seems to work well with these bullets in 7x64s or 280s. I think that Nick Harvey lists the same data for each round interchangeably.
Steve

Thanks for that BH, I'll get an email off to Knibbs & find out if its a goer. Our exchange rate to the UK Pd hasn't suffered as bad as it has to the US Dollar. You mention of the simplified action on the CF2 reminded me of a visit to the BSA factory I made in 1983.  After first being refused an audience I cajoled them into a 5min look at the place, 2 hours later I was done, fascinating. It was not hard to see how my Hunters had been made on the same machinery as the CF2 with only detail differences. It was also not hard to see how inefficient it was as a process. I always wondered what the Pakistanis did with the plant after it shut down. I like my BSAs. Need more. :smiley:
Steve

Having looked back thru to my first post on this topic I've realised that everyone else was talking Majestics where I was talking Hunter/Imperial. Come down to it I always thought the Majestic was a pretty wee action too & its very popular in NZ, they go for silly prices on our local version of Ebay. The progression of BSA models has often confused me & Brithunters referal to a 1st pattern Monarch has compounded the confusion. To me, the Monarch was the one after the Majestic & before the CF2 & I always thought they were non dovetailed. I think I thought the change over from dovetailed receivers to screw on scope mounts came at the end of the Majestics.
BH, the action as you describe would build a lovely mountain rifle, some of the trimmest such rifles I've seen have been on BSA Majestic actions, a perfect match for a round like 270 Win, 280 Rem or 7x64, I would love it if you could post some pics of it, keep looking in Photobucket.  :)
Steve

It wasn't only at the range to muzzle blast was objectionable, it was fairly nasty in the field as well. Given that my hearing has suffered damage already I didn't feel like persevering with it & as the rifle was in good original condition, it would have been a shame to butcher or rebarrel it. I would like to find one that had been butchered though as they are a sweet action, just need a new stock & barrel. :D
Steve